King Kong

A continuation of guest poster Chris Arnold’s series on King Kong and American intellectual history.And the Prophet said:
” And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty.
And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day,
It was as one dead”With these faux ancient words Merian C. Cooper gave life to the powerful 20th century American version of Beauty and the Beast archetype that is the myth of King Kong, As Richard Slotkin posits
“Myth expresses ideology in a narrative… myths are formulated as ways of explaining problems that arise in the course of historical experience. Read more

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@erin_bartram @Historiann @TheTattooedProf @TryingBiology @williamrblack @BenjaminEPark @LDBurnett @petecajka @monicalmercado @sarageorgini @WilliamCossen It's wonderful to be included in this list, @erin_bartram! Seeing/meeting so many people at #USIH2017 was a definite highlight of 2017 for me as well!

@t_lacy Great post, @t_lacy. #USIH2017 was our first year to manage the book exhibit ourselves. Big shoutout to @whitney_nell for updating the publisher contact list & to @sarageorgini for designing sponsorship tiers. #USIH volunteers rock!

@dw_rinn @RayHaberski @LDBurnett I know you're not a podcast listener but I think you'll want to listen to this one since it's all about the fantastic Dallas #USIH2017 conference that you organized. #USIH